I share a how to play and review the TCG-styled fantasy baseball game Clutch Baseball from Clutch Hobbies.
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54:19 Final thoughts and review score
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Interesting to see a perspective from outside what I’d consider the game’s core community and player base. Clutch is heavily modeled after MLB Showdown, which Wizards of the Coast produced from 2000-2005. A lot of us who have strongly supported Clutch are people who played and loved Showdown back then and are glad to finally have a spiritual successor that has largely improved on that game and gives us current players.
I completely understand digging the game. There are just some aspects of the real sport which Clutch really presents in an abstracted way which I’m not keen on. Plus at the price point, I feel Strat-O-Matic is a far better deal as well as baseball simulation. Clutch Baseball certainly is fun but wouldn’t be my go to as far as simming the National Pastime.